15 Quick Tips for Using Essential Waters to Soothe Your Body and Mind
In my previous article, Discovering Hydrosols, I covered the production and cautions of essential oils (EO) and hydrosols, a type of aromatic water, also known as essential waters. Now I am following up with a variety of ways to use these related products…
Read MoreWant to Share Your Adventures with Others? This Is a Great Audience!
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yellowstone National Park. I have been quite fortunate to live close to the park most of my life and have enjoyed multiple yearly journeys to our country’s first national park over the last 5+ decades…
Read MoreStep Away from the Easter Calories and Nobody’s Waist Line Gets Hurt
This is how they get us: they go one of three ways. First, your standard chocolate companies transform chocolate, sugar, nuts and/or marshmallows into darling shapes like bunnies, chicks, and lambs…
Read MoreLearning Another Language as a Sexagenarian, Not Easy!
I always wanted to learn another language. Why? The only reason I could surmise is my desire for learning. Also, I love a challenge, and what better way than conquering a new language? So, I have embarked on learning Spanish, a journey of agony and ecstasy.
Read MoreAge Spots and Sun Damage: Causes, Treatments, and How to Cover (It’s Easy!)
As is the case for many of us, our age spots and sun damage are all signs of a misspent (or well spent) youth baking (basking?) in the delight of sunshine with nothing to do. Ah, the golden years. Before cellulite, bifocals, and sunscreen, when baby oil…
Read More10 Things You Can Do to Keep Your Bones Healthy and Strong After 60 (Recipes)
“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Remember that famous line? It was in a TV commercial years ago, and though it has since been used in countless stories, jokes, and memes, it still relates to a serious issue…
Read MoreHow Poetry Changed Since the Time We Went to School
When most of us were in grade school, we were mainly exposed to classical poets such as Chaucer and Shakespeare. Mixed in might have been some limerick poems…
Read MoreHow to Stop Complaining So That You Can Get More from Life After 60
Last month, a friend of mine asked me, “What are you giving up for Lent?” And although I’m not Catholic, I liked the idea of giving up something that doesn’t fit with who I want to be, so I had a ready answer for her. I said, “Complaining…
Read MoreResolving the Root of Incontinence Instead of Dealing with the Symptoms
There is a host of “solutions” to bladder incontinence. Medications cause certain muscle groups to relax. Surgery tries to elevate or suspend certain ligaments. Botox injections attempt to cause relaxation of the detrusor muscle to add bladder capacity…
Read MoreKindness and Courage from Melinda French Gates
If you had billions of dollars, how would you use that money to make our world a better place? Who would you help first? How would you make that happen? How would you make sure that your donations were not wasted?
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